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May 28, 1929. LEE I I 1,714,880

S TAND Filed-March 18, 1927 fiefi [kl/an er few/ M LE5 waww 1 this instance represented as a cylindrical rod v Patented may as, 1929.

EDWIN 1VI; nnnoensne-o, NORT'H'DAKOTA, nssien'onor ONE-HALF To GEORGE o. 7

- RICHARDSON, or FAneo, non'rrzpig norn.

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' .Applicatio'n filed March is; 927, 'seriai up. 176,561.

Objects of, theinvention' are to provide a very simple inexpensive construction; to prof videa Construction in which the elements can be quickly connected or disconnected; andto provide'a deviceadapted to be operated as I the result of a gravity action ofthe element to be supported.

Features of the invention include the general arrangement, as well as all deta ls of construction.

Ob'ects advanta es and features will :be

pointed out the description of the drawings forming a part'ot thisapplication, an d in said drawings F i 'ure 11is a side elevation showin the D D device holding aitelement in upright posi tion; I 1 1 Figure 2 is a plan section; I I I I Figure 3 is a plan section substantially on line 33 o'f Figure 1; and I Figures 1 and 5 are views illustrating the manner of disconnecting a leg from its link. The device comprises links 1 identical in construction and eachhaving. a closed loop .3 and a partially open loop-4, these loops being, in. this instance terminal, and lying in the same plane. It is conceivable that the loops 3 may also be partially open to facilitate assembly. These links are arranged so that each loop is traversed by a link, thus providing a device comprising linksslidably connected together to form, what will be termed a running noose, or open ng, which; can be made, expanded or constructed as, de-.-

sired by sliding the links one upon the other. This opening or noose is adapted to be traversed by the element to be. supported, in

or bar 5, which may be the bottom of a tree.

To each link is pivotally attached a leg 7,

and the attachmentis pivotal. The connec- I tion is also slidable so that the leg can be disconnected from its link by simple swinging motions, in this instance in plane sub stantially at right angles to one another, one

in the plane of the loop 4. It is for this purpose that the loops 1 are partially open as at 8, see Figures 4; and 5'. -Each leg has two openings respectively"designated 10 and .11, through which the loop is adapted to pass. As shown in Figure 1 at the left each leg is thus looselytraversed'by the loop {two points whereby the swinging movements of the leg and link above mentioned can be. made to instantly disconnect the parts This disconnection made ina manner shown in Figures 4 and 5 first by swinging the leg" in' the plane of the loop, in a"direction shown at A in Figure i and theniturther swinging the leg, about the opening .11' as a pivot, to

a position substantially at right angles to that shown in Figure 4, tov have it assume the radial position shown in Figure 5, after which the leg is moved generally in the diopening 11 from the loop.

Each providedwith prongs 15 or equivalent devices wherebythe legs can be made to positively engage the supportedele "inent; Thuswhen'th'e upper ends of the legs are positively engaged as bydriving the prongs into the wood, and when the lower ends 16 are resting on theground the weight of the tree tends to spread the legs in a direction oi the arrow C, Figure, 1, which re-' sults in pulling the rodscin the direc tion of the arrow D which results in a constriction of the running noose so that thelinks which form the noose embrace the support as the result of action of the support. The ends; 16. are curved substantially as shown to facilitate the sliding out action which results in the entrainment of the elements 1.

gravity The device-is simple and-inexpensive and the links can be assembledby threading the loops 3 over the open ends of the loops 4, yet this must be accomplished in such man ner that the open portion 8 of the loop 4 faces downwardly, see Figure '1. In the. modification of Figure. 5 the open portions 8 and 20 lie on the same side so that when an element 1 is pressed over another element and hooked there onto, the gap 8 will naturally be facing downwardly- I claim as my invention: I

1. A device of the class described comprising links slidably connected to provide an opening to receive the elelnent to be supported and legs one foreach linkfpivotally connected thereto and having-fiends to triotionally engage the element abiovejthe open mg the arrangement belng such" that the Weight of thesupported element acts to cause the links toenibrace the element, each link having a partially closed terininalloopQahd each leg being loosely traversed by the loop atjt'wo "points, whereby by swinging inoveconnected.

2. A device of the class described comprising links slidably cofnneotecl together 'to form a running noose to be "traversed by the element tolbe supported, each link hav- V nection of the -legs from the links.

In combination with a supported elenient,' links slida bly-connected together "to form a running noose about theeleinent, a leg pivoted to each lmkandl'engaging't'he supported element a'sfa fulcrum above the 'noose the opposite end of the legs being engaged with the floor, and the Weight'of the supported element acting to spread the legs I and tighten the :noose about the element;

l. v A deviceof the. class described compris ing three Wire elements each having a tera'ninal loop traversed by one of the elements to form a running noose of substantially triangular eonfigai-aeion, a leg pivoted to each,

Wire element at a point outwardly beyond the noose, and each leghaving means "engage able with an article to 'supportedfwhi'ch article is circumscribed by the'lo'op, and to engage su'charticle at a point above the loop, and each leg further havinga'portion" below thepoi'nt of attachment with the Wire element; and the. :legs being arrangea'ble in pyramidal forln, such that When-the upper ends ofthe elements are engaged with the article'to be supported the Weight of the article acting upon the upper endsof "these elements spreads their lower end, and causes the noose to be tightly drawn about the supported article.

In witness whereof, I have hereunto'set my "handthis 8th day"ofl\larh,.1'9'27.

j I EDWIN 

